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14 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Breaking: LinkedIn said it would shut the version of its professional-networking site that operates in #China, marking the end of the last major American social-media network operating openly in the country. wsj.com/articles/micro…
@LinkedIn said that it made the decision after “facing a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China.”
LinkedIn said it would replace its Chinese service, which restricts some content to comply with local government demands, with a job-board service lacking social-media features, such as the ability to share opinions and news stories.
In the Thursday statement, LinkedIn said that after seven years of operating in China it had “not found the same level of success in the more social aspects of sharing and staying informed.”

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15 Oct
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"We don't worry about it at all. The threat has always been there and there's nothing to worry about. If it were going to happen, it would've had happened a long time ago," said Huang about the potential military conflict between #China and #Taiwan. edition.cnn.com/2021/10/14/asi…
But on the streets of Taipei, the mood this week was mostly relaxed and confident. While a few people said they were a bit worried about threats of forced "reunification" by Beijing, many believed the Chinese government would never really go ahead with it.
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13 Oct
In the latest survey data published in @BrookingsInst by @lnachman32, @johncw_Mok and the research team,
57.6% of respondents said they worry that war is a distinct possibility. brookings.edu/blog/order-fro…
When broken down by party identification, we found both a majority of DPP and KMT respondents are concerned about a possibility of war. KMT respondents however are more worried about war than DPP respondents,…
… but both parties’ respondents share the concern, showing that that fear of military conflict spans Taiwan’s political aisle despite a typically high degree of partisanship.
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13 Oct
A Chinese official said #China's recent increase in military exercises and warplane missions near #Taiwan — which have raised concerns around the region — were necessary to defend the nation's sovereignty and territory. google.com.tw/amp/s/news.yah…
The purpose of the maneuvers was to “fundamentally safeguard the overall interests of the Chinese nation and the vital interests of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait," said Ma Xiaoguang, spokesperson for the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office.
“The People's Liberation Army exercises are necessary actions to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity," Ma told reporters at a biweekly news conference in Beijing.
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12 Oct
"The need for peace and stability does not mean there must be compromise. #Beijing will not waver on its territorial claims. No matter what the temptation, Washington should avoid any dealings in which #Taiwan becomes a bargaining chip." ft.com/content/263eb8…
"Most fundamentally, future decades of peace across the Taiwan Strait depend on recognition that military conflict would be a disaster for Taiwan, China, the US and the world."
"Quite aside from the hideous human cost of any fighting, any war would overturn a global order under which Taiwan and China have both prospered mightily, to their own benefit and that of their trading partners."
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12 Oct
"But as the troubles of a major property developer and its $300 billion mountain of debt drive a government effort to contain the peril, #Beijing risks hurting a major driver of its crucial economic growth engine: home buyers like He Qiang." nytimes.com/2021/10/12/bus…
"Mr. He was so optimistic about property in China that he bought an apartment from that property developer, China Evergrande Group, then became a real estate agent himself, selling the company’s apartments to hundreds of other families.
“It was the peak of Evergrande’s glory,” Mr. He said. He is much more pessimistic these days. Mr. He, who is from the southern city of Yueyang, has yet to move into his apartment because Evergrande has stopped construction.
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